Door or drawer securer.



HIRAM L. FAY, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK.

DOOR OR DRAWER SECUREB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed April 17, 1907. Serial No. 368,724.

Be it known that I, HIRAM L. FAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at I-lerkimer, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door or DrawerSecurers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in securing devices,and more particularly to that class employed in connection withfurniture or like articles, having doors and sliding drawers therein,and my object is to provide a fastener of this class, whereby the doorsand drawers may be held in a closed position when the furniture is beingshipped, or otherwise handled.

A further object is to provide means for readily attaching the securingdevice to the parts of the furniture.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application,Figure 1 is a front elevation of a piece of furniture, showing myimproved fastgning device applied to use thereon. Fig. 2 is a detailsectional view on an enlarged scale as seen on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a perspective view of the T 0 all whom it may concern:

a blank employed for forming the securing device.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference numerals designatecorrespondmg parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates an articleof furniture, which is divided into compartments by means of a partition2, while the compartments thus formed are divided into auxiliarycompartments by means of a horizontally disposed partition 3, thecompartments above the partition 3 being occupied by the usual form ofdrawers 4 and 5, while the com artments below the partition 3 arecovered Ivy means of doors 6 and 7. In shipping furniture of this class,it frequently occurs that the parts thereof be- 1 securing device, and,Fig. 4 is a plan view of come broken, by the doors or drawers swingingopen, and in order to hold said parts in a closed position, I provide myimproved securing device, comprising a body portion 8, which preferablyconsists of an oblong sheet of metal, one end of which is severed at itscentral portion, and thus providing arms 9 and 10, while a portion ofthe opposite end of the body portion is struck up to form asubstantially V-shaped prong 11, and in a plying my securing device tothe article of urniture, one of the drawers is removed, and in thisinstance the drawer 4, after which the body portion 8 is entered in theopening, and the prong 11 forced into the face of the partition 2, thatportion of the body having the arms 9 and 10 protruding beyond the outeredge of the partition. The drawer is then returned to its closedposition, and the arms 9 and 10 bent at right angles to the body portion8, and in opposite directions, the arm 9 extending over the face of thedrawer 4, while the arm 10 extends over the edge of the partition 2 andthe outer face of the drawer 5, and likewise, in securing the doors 6and 7 in their closed position, the door 6 is opened and the securingdevice applied as a ove stated, after which the door is again closed andthe arms directed at right angles to the body portion.

This device is preferably constructed of sheet-tin, or similar liablemetal, so that the parts thereof can be readily bent, as desired.

It will thus be seen that the securing device can be very cheaplyconstructed and formed from a single piece of metal, and it will furtherbe seen that when the device is applied to use, the parts engaged by thearms will be positively held in their closed position, and therebylessenin the danger of breakage, and when the artic e has reached itsdestination, the arms 9 and 10 can again be bent to their originalposition, so that the drawers and doors can be readily opened to removethe securing device.

hat I claim is The herein described means for securing the movable partsof an article against casual movement, comprising a body portion, armsat one end of said body portion adapted to In testimony whereof I havesigned my be bent in opposite directions and at an anname to thisspecification in the presence of gle to the body portion after the bodyportwo subscribing witnesses.

tion is placed in osition between the sta- HIRAM L. FAY. tionary andmove 1e portions and :2, prong Witnesses:

struck from said body portion adapted to en- W. J. H. BURELL,

ter parts of the article. C. J. EMERY.

